Gemini
I am just beginning my Gemini adventures. To be clear, this is Gemini, not Gemini advanced. I’m so far impressed with the quality of writing, and the ability to re-write the last prompt. The latter especially solves many practical problems that could only be solved, in other systems, with a complete restart.
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Nemo and Holmes, Gemini Edition
One of the first “silly” things I did with Gemini was write collaboratively using my fairly typical plot, this being the Sherlock Holmes/Captain Nemo crossover story. This actually went pretty well. A few anachronisms here and there – most odd of which the needless introduction of a holographic map – but overall it went better than I’d expected.
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The Kestrel, a Minmatar Exploration Frigate (Apparently)
Here I ask Gemini for some entry-level EVE Online advice about exploration ships and fits. This is a bit of a niche conversation, as it would be meaningless to anyone that isn’t familiar with the game. But if you do know a thing or two about the game, this is hilarious.
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Bob & The Golden Falcon: A Mystery
Here we have another “replay” I had done with Copilot, except this time in Gemini. Though my sample size is limited, the superiority of Gemini’s collaborative story telling is clear. It doesn’t freak out, it doesn’t need to be tricked into writing a simple story by prompt injection, it just writes with me, and very well.
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Playing Twenty Questions
I kind of enjoy playing twenty questions with LLMs, at least so far as them trying to guess what I, the human, mean. Less interesting, at least from a certain perspective, is trying to guess a secret that they know: the trouble is that few LLMs have what we might call an “internal state.” They’re completing based off the history of the conversation, and whatever their internal state may have been is lost between subsequent prompts. (They don’t have to be engineered this way, but they are.) However, when Gemini asked me, after a round, if I wanted to guess something that it chose, and I pointed out this difficulty, it suggested a unique solution that we were together able to refine into something that actually worked in (kind of) keeping a secret from me!